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but going back is not an option. it's money i'm on and are stuck in the spanish border area they're there waiting for a chance that will probably never come shattered dreams starts january 18th on t w. common ground corona. great opera with an orchestra sun oh it's a new choir in the time the condom. the starts to answer in court or c. is taking quite a risk. but what about the audience. we have to protect people but also our friends believe that if we have to sing like this it's better than not singing

at all and. that starting from the overture will rather the whole piece be again cutting wherever courses and singers in question are not here. saying anything so let's begin if for no november mario van zandt takes up the baton. as we're so scaled down let's reduced our caution box or make it more subtle the evidence here. when the rehearsals began germany was under a semi lockdown businesses were open schools and while the fantasies were closed rehearsals were allowed for of a corona version of short the same opera common the orchestra for it is only half

the usual songs. just a loud bang. the sun 2 ists don't wear masks they sing from behind plexiglass to prevent transmission of the virus singing is thought to be especially infectious. thank you cover everything is a bit too heavy abuse. especially for 10 in the morning their trial either version or ok fosamax will go. the. the singer cast for the role of calm and is prevented from traveling by the coronavirus so he or the understudy sings how are years of love and passion subject to the current hygiene regulations.

was. the thing to dance all it can to ensure rehearsals can go wrong. it does and this is an air purifier. i don't know what the professionals call it. this cure if i is the air so we can sing god bless risk. without wearing masks as well i mean so what's my sentiment mustn't we mostly were hers with masks on anyway . and we don't know yet for sure how it'll be when we eventually sing on the stage with masks on the v.m. it must mean saying you know we won't have the purifier that we can get ourselves tested before the performance. it doesn't solve the problem it's just an extra precaution that will be working with masks and distancing anyway so we don't know which passages will be doing at. this end of the assistant food is a terrible situation of ice if you and i just. yes of course i'm afraid it would be

and i protect myself the best i can sophie and i get tested as often as i can. but it weighs on your soul of the city that it weighs like a black dog on your cell says you need of the facility. yet. even subjecting themselves to eat there. but at this time the performance was still hoping they'd be able to play to an audience in december. for they had no intention of being upstaged by the virus some click to shorten it lee i already had corona a few months ago not once my doctors say i've still got the antibodies but of course you always have to be careful. but i know what you go through with this virus. how was it for you awful i'm still tired.

at least she's going to have a voice back. ringback the orchestra is relatively small some of the instruments time the potential to blow the virus into the air others don't. know the price of brass players pose the least danger because we blow in here and the air goes through 2 meters of tubes before it comes out back here no aerosols come out. exponent so tested this and confirmed that the brass bias on the clean used members of the orchestra. just drop the real problems with the singers they really project and it is not.

an entirely different kind of problem is that many of the orchestra members at the subsidised shasta county court was are under contract but others are not there freelance musicians many of whom haven't performed in months. then did it do you want to if the government of the phasers don't support those freelance performers we might just wind up living under a bridge by the time the pandemics over the course. we want to be around because we have to survive somehow when done via the not quite a if you want to keep having opera you're going to have to help us now to scream a. theater managers in coppers know that. the whisper downslope now become louder voice 6 after the sun. this. is laboratories only i don't believe it in a stage anyway to be honest but you never know what's coming how does it make you

feel when you say the production might not make it on stage in this form. this in given for our used cars in our plans from one day to other acts and making numerous and you know it's a feeling that we learn pieces that might never be performed or will get done differently on the stuff if your theory is there is an enormous challenge for the efficiency or make no mistake this is an occupational therapy yet this model every time we are completely committed to the concept and the only for it to be overturned by even visiting so we're all season biog is up people can adapt in ourselves our imaginations to something different every time think up and still for believing in it. a few hours afterwards came the next sent back the entire opera choir we're supposed to rehearse together but the latest figures for new infections are alarming the choir had to be cancelled for today it puts mario vans argo and

director stefan mackie in a difficult situation they're coordinating the. image that's the figures rise so do the individual fears and questions we have to deal with on a daily basis that if i take those fears quite seriously and i believe we should take them seriously because it's hard to rehearse with fear they would because that's why we said ok not today. or tomorrow we'll discuss how we can deal with it we're in the middle. again current instead of the choir they were asked commons pot by itself. very tenderly. but that's missing is the other lasted a bit too trivial closeness so clanged. embrace death hold musically call of. death whereas a mosque it's the only way the dancer winston ricardo armaan can bring common under

his spell. it is. there. now the choreography is stacked but the big question remains. when is the premiere . well that's a really difficult question. to weeks later than ready for a dress rehearsal the singer cast in the role of carmen has finally been able to make the trip. but the audience has not with cases of covert 9000 rising in concourse the lockdown was extended and the theaters remain closed.

it's up to the theaters to make things happen in the film because there's no shortage of reasons not to do something in these corona times. if all goes well they can hold a real primary and once the pandemics over whenever that maybe even in the face of all these uncertainties they giving it their all. this is that this is the job we have to deal. are musicians and singers are singers sing for the entire theater and everyone involved it that it is as a sign of either so they can perform to the best of their abilities and with the greatest dedication and their own this may be one of the most important jobs in my life by minus levens. eventually they even rehearsed with the choir. to help calm the singers fears the director didn't stand them shoulder to shoulder on the stage but well spaced throughout the gallery. and then would stop with one

let down of course is that we're not allowed to dance fees or you can't put the choreography on the stage the way they worked it out and often. eat. by feel like an expectant mother waiting for her baby to arrive but not allowed to give birth. the . common and her lover don't force a will never even get to that point. was . the. in this oprah about love and passion hygiene regulations prohibit so much as in

light kiss it may be heartless but at least it's healthful. common doesn't die of the pandemic but of a crime of passion. at a distance. mario do you have anything young against i think you've all set up a sample for how to make music in spite of it all and all of it all and much more thank you for it and wish you all the best and most importantly that you stay healthy of. the. long jump germany.

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you know the banks you don't mind and so watch the language of a banking money. speaking the truth global news that matters g.w. made for mines. in other countries i just read you we talked to him. cause i'm like you just have to go even because i'm not on the bike. just dirty like. germany's highways are overcrowded and traffic is only getting worse.

the month before sure just didn't think about it there are 2000000 trucks on europe's roads every day i decided i had to do something most. urban areas also suffer the effects of road traffic clogged streets and polluted air if you build a city along to a car you forget to human beings on the streets we are as a crossroads how can we really imagine the mobility of the future. i took the shipman test failed to materialise the just 6 agent oliver to conservative talk to his driver and unique like they had a lot of empty runs on the weekend after dropping off their cargo trucks came back empty that something on the polk wants to avoid. hoover condo was supposed to make

3 runs today but the 2nd was canceled if no other solution is found the truck will go empty for 500 kilometers. over canada has been a truck driver for almost 40 years his work has changed a lot over that time. this used to be a dream job not anymore. there are too many trucks on the road and. traffic is heavy on and there are constant traffic jams i can't just drive past it on the shoulder or say get out of my way i'm on a deadline that means. the number of trucks on germany's freeways has been rising with no end in sight but 2030 it's expected that freight volume will increase by 39

percent driven by the growth in online shopping. more goods going by road will bring more congestion. claims is a management consultant he never had anything to do with trucks or freight companies but one day that changed. i was stunned and thought i was fine autobahn really was stuck in a traffic jam on a freeway like this. in front of me the trucks were lined up to the horizon i wondered if there might be a smarter way to deal with richard it's really going to listen. against this one major insight was when i realized that 25 percent of trucks on the road are empty. complex layer and about 40 percent of their capacity goes on tap but. now i'm on the roads the solution was clear to him fewer empty trucks would help reduce

traffic and its environmental impact environmental issues are high on his agenda he takes the train to work. and 2016 he took the plunge and founded coggan x. a company that anxious to stop empty runs by skating the logistics companies on board wasn't easy. home last the established companies in the industry what they thought and they all said it will work as wonderful to. cargo nexus online platform uses self learning algorithms to calculate logistics capacity and demand in real time when a company wants to ship goods to a customer it has to strike a deal with religious text. that takes time. the platform acts as an intermediary calculating a current market price in the blink of an eye the logistics companies see it online whoever has an empty truck nearby can claim the job and send their driver straight

away. it makes sense but is the logistics industry ready to change the way it operates the trucking business is already stressful enough. has nearly completed his 1st delivery the carrier he drives for has been using hove to to love hence his online platform for just 2 weeks will it work. after unloading there's a gap his next job isn't 500 kilometers away. his truck will have to make the run empty unless his dispatcher manages to get him another. foreman or sat when you're ready to go you press here to indicate you're looking for an order. that tells the office the truck is empty kinds of r.v. sometimes we drive 10150 kilometers without cargo on.

the message arrives at the office in part a bomb in northwest in germany the dispatcher starts looking for a suitable cargo time is of the essence the company only earns money when the truck is loaded and on the road. so long about it if a truck has to wait too long at the unloading point or gets stuck in traffic it can miss its delivery window so we have to reshuffle the deck 3 or 4 times a day in the halls converse mostly for have a dr. can the intelligent online platform help that would be good for the environment and help prevent clogged roads. commuters are another piece of the past they add to the traffic burden. colors usually drives to her work at schneider a company known for its pens and pencils. her partner manu way his works there too

and could even ride with her but here's a prefers to take his bike to work. just down the road monterey his meets up with his father taught. a lot of boy i. would say off with that. he also works at snyder it's a snowy morning in this corner of the black forest in southwest in germany but every day rain or shine the 2 cycle to work 5 kilometers over hilly terrain. not far from their house is a bus stop the passengers also work for schneider. it looks like a regular city bus but her belongs to the family owned company. for the past 34 years

there's been a free bus service for employees so they can leave their cars at home commuters are a major burden on germany's road. some 68 percent drive to work most of them alone in their cars up to 55 people can fit on the company bus so that means up to 55 fewer cars on the road. manu and battered his bikes don't belong to them at least not yet they lease through their employer they can also write them in their free time. pays a leasing fee of $65.00 euros per month his employer offers a financial incentive if you bikes to work at least 60 times a year the company pays up to $35.00 euros of the monthly rate meanwhile a 3rd of schneider's workforce is taking part and a reward awaits the 3 cyclists who write the most. out of what i know if you write

a lot the company will cover the costs for a whole year. but when it rains we take the bus every now and then. i. have read journey is recorded in the log books. my underwear has never won the company's competition but he's ambitious. for me think i'm near the top this year off some english i hope so. we'll see i have time to hand over the log books. the competition was multinational it is the idea. she is head of public relations in the family for environmental awareness has long been central to the schneider company's ethos and that includes how its 400 employees commute to work it was martina's grandfather who launched the company bus the bicycles were her father's idea and commuting bike is so popular now that it's

giving the bus a run for its money. to fly with a local here and later the 2 programs compete with each other in a way at 1st as the khyber pass only started with bicycles and 2012 some people switched from the past to the feyerick of course that had an impact on sustainability it's a big bus with a 55 so only 5 people on board fact has near perfect so we look for workable solution yourself driving a bus or small van less so figuring out the best solution is to get. martineau's brother christiane schneider is the managing director he's especially keen on the idea of self driving buses and then considering purchasing 2 or 3 of these buses they can operate with or without a driver this small and economical and each person could travel a different route. every concept is always

going to need to be updated and modified we're putting a lot of thought into what the future might look like. self driving buses might be the wave of the future but the schneiders need a quick a solution a nearby company recently started offering its workforce a carpooling service using many passes every morning jeff did call in one collects his colleagues and after work he drives them home in the evenings and on weekends. buses available as part of a car sharing scheme open to the public. but your venice for right. where are 9 seats and 9 of us before we leave my place at 630 so. people can now leave their cars at home. for the night accompany it's a promising idea they could use more mini buses in the winter and few in the summer

it would be a good supplement to the commuting bike scheme. but for the moment it's the bike scheme that's getting all the attention. who will win the competition and receive a year's free lease on their bike women wear his come out on top the moment of truth is here. was finally found that our regional goal was to replace 20000 kilometers of driving we've done that many times over we've put in over 400000 kilometers. yes i had a liver failure probably ready to find out who the winners are. was close. by. the 3rd winner is money well his are congratulations and good luck this upcoming season off oracle for the next now

you get one year on your bike free of charge that this is. leasing bikes and company passes are just to incentives that can help reduce commuter traffic but what if entire cities move to ditch their cars. this city of outraged in the netherlands has tried to do just that according to an international survey it's one of the world's best bike cities even ahead of amsterdam. but traced isn't content to rest on its laurels it's continuing to invest in is a bit of projects. originally from australia conny fund done now who is the netherlands home she'd lived in a number of cities around the world but fell in love with a small town near to taste. she learned how to ride

a bike here when she was already in her thirty's. i've never cycle the rest. i tried to cycle once i didn't know what i was doing it was dangerous it was 35 degrees i heard myself i only started cycling in london in central london. really crazy. cycling has become her passion she even writes articles for english language newspapers about cycling in the netherlands one article profiled cycling instructors like france lip he's going to take early on a tour of taste but that requires you know you want to learn about cycling through your trip i would like very much enjoy you know the address of you my job is to teach anyone who wants to learn how to ride safely in traffic wm coming from here. even on a bike other than traffic takes some getting used to cycling instructors are just

one of the novel ideas that the netherlands has used to win people over to bikes. another idea to make biking more fun is smart and playful traffic lights called field which would piloted in 2017. the turtle tells riders to slow down to catch the green knight and rabbit means pedal hard ok kylie berry has power for you so no chance of getting green. across traced new bike paths and bridges are sprouting up to give cyclists the fastest and most convenient creates. this new bridge is even heated in the winter so that it doesn't over. it's happening and you can see that in a city like you take it in our sample and like how to of course yeah there are but are cities who are really thinking from how do we get from being a car city to be

a remarkable city we. traced it is continuing to invest in a car for the future. my. latest megaproject cost more than $30000000.00 euros. the main railway station is now home to the world's largest by kharaj. and plans are underway to remove even more cars from the city center. a lot fun her drunk as you trace deputy mayor responsible for transport and mobility we built this kind of beautiful parking space where you go really go to psycho just because the facilities are there so it's it's the mobility that we like. the train is growing and doesn't want to be overwhelmed by car traffic in 2017 the city

invested $130.00 euros per resident into cycling infrastructure bilin invested just for euro 70 per resident buttressed hasn't always been a world class bike city. like in many other countries in the 1950 s. and sixty's the automobile was at the center of planning a large canal in the center of the city was even filled in so that a freeway could be built on top of it. for the past 20 years has been gradually reversing the mistakes of the past the canal is also being restored and the motorway is being transformed into a waterway and away says of car in the midst of the city. new residential developments are also doing their part for a lot fun who dunks reducing car traffic is a priority a new district with 6000 drillings isn't planning. instead of one car per

household the district will have parking for only one out of every 3 households. there will be mobility management so a couple of hops people can go for all their mobility desires car sharing electric bikes cargo takes public transport so there's really no fast mobility in sight this area. the residents of already undertake half of all journeys by bike the deputy mayor wants to increase that. human beings should be central in the city that's what we are building the city around and not of cars and in death since it's an historical change and we try to undo all the damage that's been done been done in the fifty's and sixty's and seventy's. live and is on her way home the route takes her along a lovely cycle path it's another incentive to leave the car behind people in the

netherlands travel by bike for 27 percent of their journeys in germany that figure is 11 percent and in france just 3. cycle express or it brings cali directly to how to and where cars are now just guests. truck driver of a car is still waiting for a load of freight otherwise he'll have to drive an empty truck 500 kilometers to call in. at the company's headquarters all of a book is trying to prevent the empty run he is on the cargo next online platform looking for a suitable order. he spotted something pick up in a location not too far from where is waiting. one click and he has the job.

for also that trucks now been taking care. of the order is coming through for monday 35 powered pages and pallets for billing and so we can get moving. over kind of got the additional load he'd hoped it's along his planned route and his truck has enough room for it thanks to intelligent freight coordination he's avoided an empty run and kept an unnecessary truck of the road it's a win for the logistics company the roads and our. environment. that in hamburg hove to tell affluence is pleased. although the logistics industry was skeptical at 1st that's changed. some 8000 companies with more than 120000 trucks have registered with his platform. but. the

larger the network grows the more efficient it becomes cutting down on even more empty runs. your kind. we could measure it on vehicles that operate exclusively through us. we saw a 50 percent reduction in empty kilometers compared to the overall average for the quarter and what. if all trucks in germany operated at such a high capacity at least half of mt runs could be avoided that would mean fewer trucks on the highways and fewer traffic jams. but what could be done about the traffic taking over our cities. again we can look to the netherlands for an.

car leave undone and her family live in the town of heart an outside taste for living here she could hardly imagine doing without a car but in house and she does everything by pike. the right into our house is 3 minutes. and by cartridges around our house 10 minutes some people don't understand how why you would get in the car to do the shopping the children also go to school on their own 9 year old rafi has just short trips. his older sisters mia and abby spend about an hour on their bikes getting to school and back every day. it's a lot of writing every way kilometers back and forth but it's still better than the car yeah because the car is not really that good for the next year and it's

just so more independent they come out of school and i know they can get themselves to one place to another place i don't have to chaperone them they're independent they can make decisions for themselves and they just feel. good in the world in other countries i just heard that they all just have cars and like you just have to go even a car and not on the bike i just don't like. in 2018 houghton was voted the netherlands best bicycle city around the world this suburb of 50000. it's regarded as a model for the mobility of the future car and bicycle traffic are separated wherever they do meet the bicycle always has the right of way there hasn't been a fatal cycling accident here in 40 years houghton's bicycle commissionaire and i put in months is a friend of kylie's. you know how to. cycle on they never have to stop

not for cars or traffic not for traffic lights. not for trains nothing. airplanes. overflying birch. for her next article kylie wants to report on how houghton became a bicycle city. she's missing the man who planned this town more than 50 years ago robert desks back then housing was still a village in the search for new housing. it decision was made to build a new community here with a very special traffic concept. we decided to do things the other way around instead of starting with the car which was normal in urban planning we started with other things green areas walking cycling quality of life. is your mission to come with. a community with a car is an afterthought

a community with room for people if you're living your friend is living over there and you want to go to visit them. by bike it is. managed by car impossible this is a barrier you have to go out to shoot or a road and driving driving driving. there's the family that. people can still drive and house in but it's never the fastest option that makes the decision to travel by bike easy and that's why the share of journeys made by bike here is the highest in the world. and some people say that if the nederlandse is the heaven for cyclists then out in is the heaven of heaven. i believe it with the right incentives we can

leave our cars behind like bike friendly communities and new mobility infrastructure company busses and cheap or even free public transport. this transformation won't happen overnight but there are people and places that have paved the way for us. to.

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